Abstract: We propose a variant of the two-stage Eulerian-Lagrangian difference scheme for gas dynamics calculations in the two-dimensional approximation. Energy balance equation in the original gas-dynamic system of equations is written in the 'entropy' form – with respect to the gas medium internal energy. The initial equations of continuity and momentum are divergent-conservative, therefore they are approximated as conservative balance equations. Using the constructed difference approximations to gasdynamics equations we derive a kinetic energy balance equation that does not contain nonphysical source terms which in some other difference constructions can appear due to the method of differencing. Such sources usually are proport...